Psychologists might be best placed to discern why some people seem to derive a pornographic delight in imagining their own generation is the worst of times and is witnessing the End of Civilization. With that self-absorption goes a grandiose fantasy that among the ruins, they will be with the few who emerge to rescue what little [...]
Dyann Brown has read excerpts from three of my biographies in her eclectic and relaxing podcast series: https://jpearce.co/snippets-from-my-biographies/
Here are my thoughts on how Christians should respond to an age in which the Goliath of globalism seeks to subjugate the peoples of the world: https://jpearce.co/globalitarianism/
Many years ago, during the height of my Tolkien obsession, I engaged in online chat with other Middle-Earth inhabitants. We covered topics like “Where would you have lived in Middle-Earth?” Most chatters said they would have lived in the Shire; some said Rivendell. I knew I would have lived in Lothlorien. When the topic of immortal [...]
Newly published by Catholic World Report is the first appearance in English of an interview that Joseph Pearce gave to a Polish journal on Benson and other literary converts: https://jpearce.co/discussing-r-h-benson-other-literary-converts/
Newly posted in this week's Inner Sanctum are St. Francis, Chesterton, Belloc, Dante and a mysterious visitor from Narnia.... https://jpearce.co/giving-thanks-with-st-francis-and-g-k-chesterton/
Understanding the deepest elements in one of Shakespeare's darkest tragedies in a little more than a thousand words... https://jpearce.co/othello-in-a-nutshell/
Historians tend to have fun in ways unlike most other people, so a game using a map and set in the past ought to be just what any historian would be after. Diplomacy, a board game commercially introduced in 1959 by Allan Calhamer, harkens back to the era of the First World War and forgoes a [...]
When the world is "progressing" towards the dark wood of despair and death, it is literature which lights the way to a better and brighter path: https://jpearce.co/literary-light-amid-the-ruins/
The life of St. Martin of Tours, patron saint of France, soldiers, and beggars, reaches over the greater part of the 4th century, that period during which the Church, no longer a proscribed society, found herself for the first time free to pursue the evangelization of the Roman Empire. This was the work of more than [...]
